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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

There is a funny story that once a man who moved to a new place asked a
Car dealer how to go to nearby grocery. The grocery was infact 3 blocks
away but the car dealer explained that he must buy a BMW because it
would save time & money for buying fuel (because certain models were
hybrid) and he could reach grocery store in only 3 minutes time (if he
walk it would take 15 minutes, :()!

In case the Guy says that he run a small coffee shop with Cash register. And he needs a
small solution. If he can go walking he needs a bike or small car,
Not BMW, he will be deterred by XYZ compliancy. Since closed source makes more money, its natural that dealer would Rip off gullible guys walking
in front of store with FUD theory.

One of our expert guy Jim said, If I were in his shoe, I would select
any Decent system that has lowest installation cost, can be maintained
by mysef, or I can hire local technican or IT guy with few hours
countract to customize to produce daily and weekly sales report.

Cost effective means if a shopping bag can be carried by one hand,
spent few bucks for a Cart to make it easier but must say NO to any
offer for riding white elephants!

Everyone should try Open source before dealing with any closed soruce
product. Two main reasons. First of all he does not need to pay single
cent to use it as it is. ( We use Firefox and Apache - they never charge
any thing but they serves our purpose well). Again there are FREE closed
source products. Why should you avoid them? Because you never know if
this is Free cheese in mouse trap, ie, if there are daemon under the
hood, some day would change policy and force you to pay a lot , or die
suddently, or ask your head for changing some report. In case of open
source you have everything - including source code and your son who
knows few lines of programming can fix typos. Or you can go to oDesk or
Rent-a-coder or hire somone recompilining code in few bucks.
Interestingly if you hang on the forum you can get same thing in almost
at zero cost. Second reason its good is even the original coders of open source
die you still have source code to survive! Open source community also
reports all known errors and often community users fix them. So they
become less buggy than Polished Brands (That's one reason why many commercial software owner prefer to hide their bugtrackers)!

Open source is a new business paradigm. It does not lock you and its
more secured than Hidden code ( who knows Free or low cost Closed soruce
has a malware to track you). If some say hey your Software does not have these simple feature you can request original developer to make it or find skilled coders! You may pay
the some money but you have full control in your hand.